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Task 38 – Greenhouse Gas Balances of Biomass and Bioenergy Systems<\/b><\/p>\n The IEA Bioenergy Task38 conference on Greenhouse gas emissions from bioenergy systems: impacts of timing, issues of responsibility<\/i> consists of two days of presentation and discussion on issues including<\/p>\n The goals of the conference were:<\/b><\/p>\n Final workshop summary (PDF-file 97kB)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Keynote address: Adding when to the what, where, if and why of biofuels’ indirect climate effects – and adding others to the list of usual suspects. \u2013\u00a0Michael O\u00b4Hare, University of California at Berkeley, USA Is bioenergy carbon neutral? An overview of the work of IEA Bioenergy Task 38 on GHG balances of biomass and bioenergy systems. –\u00a0Annette Cowie, IEA Bioenergy Task 38 Management, National Centre for Rural Greenhouse Gas Research, Australia The net-benefit of bioenergy for climate change mitigation. –\u00a0Alexander Popp, Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany Better use of biomass for energy. IEA RETD \/ IEA Bioenergy Position Paper. –\u00a0Uwe Fritsche, Oeko Institute, Germany Preserving the world\u2019s tropical forests: A price on carbon may not do. –\u00a0Martin Persson, Chalmers University, Sweden Global Bioenergy Partnership: Version zero of the methodological framework for GHG LCA of bioenergy. –\u00a0Horst Fehrenbach, Institut f\u00fcr Energie- und Umweltforschung IFEU, Germany The EU Renewable Energy Directive and its implementation, including addressing indirect land use change.\u00a0–\u00a0Catherine Bowyer, Institute for European Environmental Policy, United Kingdom<\/i><\/p>\n Methodological issues on GHG emission calculations. –\u00a0Paul Hodson, European Commission, DG TREN, Brussels Intensification of agriculture for bioenergy: Impacts on GHG emissions and biodiversity. –\u00a0Jan Ros, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands Opportunities and complications in the transition towards a sustainable bio-based economy. –\u00a0Leen Gorissen, VITO, Belgium Sustainable biomass imports – Challenges for GHG LCA methodology implementation within an operational verification procedure. –\u00a0Chrystelle Verhoest, Laborelec, Belgium Invited address: Reassessing optimal climate-change mitigation strategies through more explicit consideration of the role of time in impact assessments. –\u00a0Miko Kirschbaum, Landcare Research, New Zealand On the timing of greenhouse gas emissions. –\u00a0Neil Bird, IEA Bioenergy Task 38 Management, Joanneum Research, Austria CO2 perturbation and associated global warming potentials following emissions from biofuel based on wood. –\u00a0Glen Peters, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Norway Radiative forcing effects of forest fertilization and biomass substitution. –\u00a0Roger Sathre, Leif Gustavsson, Mid Sweden University, Sweden Improved time accounting in the estimation of GHG emissions from indirect land use change. –\u00a0Jesper Hedal Kl\u00f8verpris, Novozymes A\/S, Denmark Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use. The vision of the German Advisory Council on Global Change. –\u00a0Michael Sterner, Fraunhofer IWES, University of Kassel, Germany The full day study tour took participants to<\/p>\n <\/p>\n List of Participants (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n Click on thumbnails to enlarge pictures<\/p>\n Greenhouse gas emissions from bioenergy systems: impacts of timing, issues of responsibility Brussels, Belgium, March 8th \u2013 10th, 2010 Jointly organised by Task 38 – Greenhouse Gas Balances of Biomass and Bioenergy Systems Scope and objectives of the conference The IEA Bioenergy Task38 conference on Greenhouse gas emissions from bioenergy systems: impacts of timing, issues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/task38.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/task38.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/task38.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/task38.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/task38.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/task38.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4592,"href":"https:\/\/task38.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4561\/revisions\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/task38.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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